Cardio Trainer: Fitness App for Android

If you like to train, make sure to check out CardioTrainer for Android. CardioTrainer is a free fitness app that tracks a variety of exercises, has a weight loss add-on, a race add-on, a game to compete against others around the world, and it will post your exercise activities to your Facebook profile if you so desire. CardioTrainer is fairly simple to use and highly customizable. The default settings work just fine but if you want some changes you can customize them as per your needs. There are settings for miles or kilometers, voice output, GPS sensitivity, stride length, weight, music playback, etc.

CardioTrainer can be used to track running, walking, skiing, hiking, and similar activities where one would have the phone in a holster or other device on the body. In addition to common outdoor activities, CardioTrainer can track swimming, and indoor treadmill and elliptical exercising. CardioTrainer has a pedometer function for indoor exercise or outside exercise. For swimming, CardioTrainer uses an algorithm to calculate calories burned based on the total exercise time and body weight.

The weight loss add-on is easy to set up. Once you put in your actual weight all you have to do is set how much you’d like to lose and set a timeframe. You set how many days a week you plan to exercise and the app will give you a gentle reminder on the mornings of your exercise days. This reminder can be cleared and will not come back until the next exercise day. Once a week the user is prompted to log their weight and the app calculates the weight loss, or gain.